Toxic Fandom: When Criticism and Entitlement Go Too Far – GeekDad
I am not normally one to discourse, but I felt this was an excellent article about the anti movement in our fandom written with an objective and non biased perspective.
This article is so good – it lays out things in clear terms and knocks down every single hypocritical or false argument used by antis in a number of fandoms.
Paul Booth, a professor of media studies at DePaul University, spoke to Polygon about this issue. He explained, “I’ve researched toxic fan activity, which I call ‘protective fandom.’ These groups are not merely forming around a particular text or a particular medium. They see themselves as the protector of it. They see themselves as the line between what they want it to be and what other people want it to be.”
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does that sound familiar? Does it not sound exactly like the alt right and all those other far-right hate groups that ‘only’ want to ‘protect the ~western civilization~’ and think the ends justify the means? Cuz to me it sounds very similar.
“Thanks to antis, the old adage of early fandom, ‘don’t like, don’t read’ (or the idea that consumers are responsible for avoiding content they don’t like) has been replaced with ‘discourse,’ death threats, and violence.”
A Force Sensitive Phasesixer 